Example sentences of "and they can be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fast drying enables a rapid overpainting , they are flexible and versatile , adhering to a variety of surfaces and they can be painted in large , flat blocks of colour , useful in hard edge , pop or optical art painting for example . |
| 2 | Over and above the on-site team are service and branch managers who will visit premises on a weekly basis to ensure that they are being cleaned in accordance with the client 's needs , and they can be contacted twenty four hours a day , whether at home or work , by radio pagers . |
| 3 | Binary signals are simpler than analogue signals and they can be transmitted much faster . |
| 4 | Most of the cases decided under the doctrine of fundamental breach have not been overruled , and they can be regarded as illustrating a prima facie presumption of construction that an exclusion is not intended to cover cases of fundamental breach or breach of a fundamental term , and very clear words will be needed to displace that presumption . |
| 5 | All independent schools have to register with their LEA ( or with the local authority Social Services Department in the case of independent nursery schools ) and they can be inspected by HMIs . |
| 6 | The symbolic roles of precious substances in human affairs are many and various and they can be viewed from several directions . |
| 7 | Pre-cut panels of mirrors sold for hanging on wardrobe or cupboard doors are often surprisingly cheap compared to custom-cut pieces and they can be hung side by side or used in certain places to look like slit windows in a wall . |
| 8 | The equality that is claimed is one of rights and they can be summarised as : |
| 9 | These are open-ended sets , and they can be called sets of phono-lexical alternants . |
| 10 | The range of SmartIcons available changes depending on what you 're doing , and they can be positioned wherever you want on-screen |
| 11 | Both types of system can be confused by reflections off glass and other shiny surfaces , and they can be beaten by rapidly moving subjects although the speed at which the newer systems work is incredibly fast . |
| 12 | It 's cheaper than out-and-out war , and they can be disowned if things grow too difficult . |
| 13 | There are , of course , many more and they can be applied to both consumer and industrial users . |
| 14 | They can be used to completely encompass a big warren system , they can be used to divide up areas of woodland and they can be operated both at night and by day when conditions are favourable . |
| 15 | The Local Investment Networking Company ( LINC ) ( 071-236 3000 ) , sponsored by Lloyds Bank , BP and chartered accountants Levy Gee , circulates to investors details of possible investments in start-ups and growing businesses in their area and they can be arranged under the BES . |
| 16 | The selection rules governing the changes in vibrational and rotational quantum numbers depend on the nature of the electronic transition , and they can be ascertained by analyzing the pattern and structures of the bands . |
| 17 | One is of a parrot , the other of an elephant dancing on a drum alongside an enormous red heart , and they can be seen on the attic mantlepiece , next to the photograph of Arthur Balfour . |
| 18 | If it carries a marker its descendants can be recognized , and they can be seen to give rise to all sorts of tissues , from muscle and bone , to liver and brain . |
| 19 | At this stage the fry are totally helpless and they can be seen as a solid mass , quivering like a lump of jelly , and difficult to distinguish as fish at all . |
| 20 | The incentive/disincentive effects of taxation can be direct and indirect and they can be seen in either broad or narrow terms . |
| 21 | Grice calls such usages floutings or exploitations of the maxims , and they can be seen to give rise to many of the traditional " figures of speech " . |
| 22 | Thus referenda can be devalued , and they can be abused . |
| 23 | Fades are well within the video repertoire of the average home movie maker , and they can be done either on the camcorder while the shots are being taken or later at the editing stage when they are being copied during assembly . |
| 24 | Explanations of this kind have a certain political attractiveness — by making training , selection and deployment the target of reform , things can be done , they can be seen to be done , and they can be done relatively cheaply too . |
| 25 | Well if they 've separated you see you get one on the inside track , one on the outside track and they can be separated by a hundred metres so that there 's one , one side one |
| 26 | C-fos and c-jun are of interest , though , not merely because they provide a key mechanistic link between early events at the cell membrane and nuclear protein synthesis , but because they only become active in cells showing plastic changes , and they can be measured and localized with exquisite sensitivity by variants of the autoradiographic techniques I have already described . |
| 27 | Similarity groups tend to be more unified than proximity groups , and they can be set in competition . |
| 28 | These can be seen on the modern OS maps and the tithe map , and they can be picked out on the ground from changes in level and property boundaries . |
| 29 | Children will also begin to classify ( … two of the irons are similar because they both could be heated on a fire … ) , and they can be encouraged to make and test hypotheses ( for example , how did they heat the flat iron ? |
| 30 | They are water-based products which dry fairly quickly , and they can be washed off tools and hands with water so long as they are still wet . |